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The U.S. and NATO, including Canada, are planning a major attack on the city of Kandahar. The CBC declared it will result in a summer of bloodshed. Please urge Stephen Harper to call off the attack on Kandahar.

The City of Ottawa overturned a 20-year ban on arms shows at city-owned facilities. Now it has been revealed that the city is pocketing nearly $113,000 from CANSEC, Canada’s largest arms show. Urge Ottawa mayoral candidates to reject CANSEC, and to stop proffiting from the arms industry.

There are still more than 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world. It’s time to finally achieve a nuclear weapon-free world. Now is the time to act. Urge Prime Minister Harper, the political party leaders and your Member of Parliament to support a new international treaty banning nuclear weapons.

Once the world’s top contributor of troops for UN Peacekeeping, Canada has fallen far down the list as the military has turned away from the UN. Urge Prime Minister Harper, the political party leaders and your Member of Parliament to make Canada a proud UN Peacekeeeper once again.

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